Hide inactive users from the blog post author dropdown

democracy_club/apps/hermes/models.py

@@ -193,7 +193,9 @@ class Post(TimestampedModel):
 
     category = models.ForeignKey(Category, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
     author = models.ManyToManyField(
-        django_settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, verbose_name="Authors"
+        django_settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL,
+        verbose_name="Authors",
+        limit_choices_to={"is_active": True},
     )
     tags = ArrayField(models.CharField(max_length=30), blank=True, default=list)
 

democracy_club/apps/hermes/tests/test_post_model.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from . import HermesTestCase
 from .. import settings
 from hermes import models
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 
 
 class PostTestCase(HermesTestCase):
@@ -232,3 +233,16 @@ def test_published(self):
             self.post1,
         ]
         self.assertEqual(expected, list(models.Post.objects.published()))
+
+    def test_active_users_only(self):
+        """The UserQuerySet should only return active users"""
+        author_6 = User.objects.create(
+            username="eleven",
+            email="[email protected]",
+            first_name="Jane",
+            last_name="Hopper",
+            is_staff=False,
+            is_active=False,
+        )
+        expected = [author_6]
+        self.assertNotEqual(expected, list(User.objects.filter(is_active=True)))